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Could Steve Jobs already be halfway to meeting his iPhone sales goal? According to 9to5Mac, Apple is expected to announce it has moved nearly five million iPhones as soon as next month's Macworld Expo.
If that number is accurate, it will mean the company is exactly halfway to hitting its target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 -- not a bad position to be in considering Apple has another 11 months and presumably some big launches in countries like Japan, China, Spain and others.
Of those five million, sources tell the site that Europe contributed one million in sales, while the U.S. accounted for the remaining four.
Apple, of course, announced it had sold 1 million iPhones on Sept. 10, only 74 days after the phone went on sale. After the notorious 33 percent price cut, sales of the phone nearly tripled according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. And while sales in Europe haven't come close to matching that pace yet, they are undoubtedly a key part of getting to 10 million.
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[Via 9to5Mac]
